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"description": "Short story by Alice Nash centering on an elderly\n \n Issei\n \n woman in contemporary New York. As she struggles to carry a bag of rice home to her apartment, she reflects on her\n \n arrival in New York\n \n with her late husband after leaving the concentration camp and the kind Yamaguchi family who put them up while refusing to take money from them. They eventually opened a cleaning shop that helped pay for their only son's college education. A successful businessman in California, the son takes her on a trip every year, but largely keeps her away from her grandchildren due to his white wife's discomfort with her. When she gets back to her apartment, the family of the building's supervisor, the Gonzalez family, invites her to their home to help decorate their Christmas tree.",
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"description": "Essay/story by\n \n Hisaye Yamamoto\n \n on racial identity that focuses on her month-long stint as a domestic in Springfield, Massachusetts, during World War II. She begins the piece by noting various white Americans she knows who have changed their ethnic-sounding last names to less ethnic sounding ones, noting the futility of her doing such a thing as a Japanese American, citing the mass incarceration during World War II. Anxious to leave\n \n Poston\n \n , where she and her family ended up, she and two of her younger brothers are allowed to leave for Massachusetts in the summer of 1944. While her fifteen-year-old brother Yuke is placed in a summer camp in the Berkshires, the\n \n War Relocation Authority\n \n office in Boston assigns her and her seventeen-year-old brother Jemo to become domestic servants for a wealthy widow in Springfield. Both initially dislike the stern and formal family and the job duties that had to be completed in different uniforms. Though mostly familiar with Japanese dishes, the narrator nonetheless finds herself cooking Western-style food for the family. When finally asked to make a Japanese meal for guests, she is appalled to find the guests dousing their rice with soy sauce. After a month, the three are called back to Poston by their father after hearing of the death of her other brother, John, in Italy as a member of the\n \n 442nd Regimental Combat Team\n \n .",
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"description": "Short story by Sasabune Sasaki about a group of\n \n Issei\n \n internees at an unspecified internment camp in the first days of their detention. Though the men write letters to their families, few have received any letters in return, due to, they believe, delays caused by censorship of the letters and their being moved from camp to camp. One day, the narrator sees a letter in its envelope tacked on a bulletin board at the camp post office and copies it down. It is an anonymously authored letter by a Nisei in English that expresses concern and support for the internees. When the narrator reads it to a group of internees, they are greatly moved.",
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"description": "Short story about a young woman who has recently left\n \n Heart Mountain\n \n to\n \n resettle in New York City\n \n in 1945. Invited to a party by co-workers at a silk screen shop, she decides to buy a new dress for the party. At the department store, she impulsively asks the friendly young female sales clerks to join her for dinner that night. Though she immediately regrets asking, the evening leads to an unexpected revelation.",
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"description": "Short story by\n \n Toshio Mori\n \n about an\n \n Issei\n \n woman's first visit with her son Mamoru after he has been severely wounded in combat as a member of the\n \n 442nd Regimental Combat Team\n \n . \"Homecoming\" takes the form of a story told in the woman's first person voice to her grandchildren. It is one of several stories by Mori featuring the same woman published in the\n \n\n Pacific Citizen\n \n\n between 1949 and 1952 that later became the basis of his novel\n \n Woman from Hiroshima\n \n , published in 1978. The first half of the story is about her efforts to see her son after being allowed to leave\n \n Topaz\n \n to\n \n return to the West Coast\n \n . She is at first dismayed to learn that he has been moved to a military hospital in Auburn, California, known to be a hotbed of anti-Japanese racism. Arriving in Auburn, they see numerous anti-Japanese signs and are unable to find a place to stay until the Red Cross sends them to a Japanese American owned farm in the next town. The second half of the story is about her visit with Mamoru, whom she learns for the first time is confined to a wheelchair and may not ever be able to walk again.",
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"description": "Short story by Ferris Takahashi. A presumably young\n \n Sansei\n \n social worker and a colleague discuss the case of an elderly\n \n Issei\n \n homeless man who seems to want to remain homeless. Sections written from the perspective of the Issei man reveal his life as a laborer first on Hawai'i\n \n sugar plantations\n \n , then in the continental U.S. and the impact of his wartime incarceration and the razing of the residential hotel he once lived in.",
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"description": "Short story by\n \n Hisaye Yamamoto\n \n centering on a\n \n Nisei\n \n man named Tak who attends a\n \n pilgrimage\n \n to\n \n Poston\n \n , where he had been incarcerated during the war. The story begins with his noticing a striking woman at the reunion dressed in buckskin; he wonders if she is Native American. A visit to the memorial at the site conjures memories of his family's wartime experience: removed from Los Angeles, they left Poston to\n \n resettle in Chicago\n \n ; his older sister had left earlier on her own to study nursing in Cleveland. He went to high school in Chicago and to college back in Los Angeles, eventually marrying and raising three daughters. But after his wife's death just a year prior, he found himself alone. On the bus ride home, he is surprised to find the buckskin woman on the same bus. She sits across the aisle from him, and he overhears her talking about being twelve in camp and being fascinated by an American Indian man who visited the camp on a white horse that he sometimes let the inmate kids ride. He also discovers that she is a widow. After imagining different scenarios about the woman and the Indian man, he works up the courage to ask her to join him for lunch.",
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